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Biologists study flood's effect on smelt in Lake Oahe

Published 11/13/2011, The Associated Press

As record amounts of water were flushed through Oahe Dam during the Missouri River flooding last summer, biologists and anglers worried about a repeat of 1997, when hundreds of millions of baitfish were sucked through the dam and left Oahe’s walleyes starving and skinny.

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